omega-minus particle

[ oh-mee-guh-mahy-nuhs, -mey-, oh-meg-uh- ]

/ oʊˈmi gəˈmaɪ nəs, -ˈmeɪ-, oʊˈmɛg ə- /

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noun Physics.

a baryon with strangeness −3, isotopic spin 0, and negative charge; predicted from the mathematics of the Eightfold Way and subsequently discovered. Symbol: Ω−

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Origin of omega-minus particle

First recorded in 1960–65

Words nearby omega-minus particle

omega-3 fatty acid, omega baryon, omega-c baryon, omega meson, omega minus, omega-minus particle, omelet, omelette, omen, omentum, omeprazole

How to use omega-minus particle in a sentence

Normally, 434 members (minus Michael Grimm who resigned) would vote for Speaker.
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The key family of molecules that lead many to look to fish oil as a brain booster are the omega-3 fatty acids.
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After all, 2009 was miserable: minus 798,000, minus 701,000, minus 826,000, and so on.
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Refuge Recovery is a lot like an AA meeting minus mentions of Him, God, or a higher Power.
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This, as a piece of pure economics, does not interest the individual employer a particle.
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And she emptied her pockets of all the letters, minus the envelopes, that Fleurette had written.
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I can tell you, my dear idealist—you have not changed a particle, by the way—that there is another side you have never seen.
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Mrs. Biggs opened her window cautiously, and thrust out her head, minus her false hair, and enveloped in a cotton nightcap.
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Let us conceive a particle of air situated immediately over the earth's polar axis.
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